I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that.
Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
No politics, no committees, no reports, no referees, no interviews – just highly motivated people picked by a few men of good judgment.
For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.
There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.
Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
America is full of entrepreneurs, inventors, and dreamers.
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.
There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
